[KS] Gari Ledyard to Keynote the ICAS Summer Symposium & ICAS Dinner:: Korean

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July 20, 2000

Dear Friend:

We are pleased to share with you that Gari Ledyard will deliver keynote
address for the subject program.

Gari Ledyard is King Sejong Professor of Korean Studies at Columbia
University in the City of New York, where he has served as the 
director of the Korean Studies program in the Department of East 
Asian Languages and Cultures since 1964.  He has taught and written 
on many aspects of Korean Studies, but is primarily a historian 
specializing in Korea's pre-modern periods.  He has also taught and 
written on Korea's modern history, culture, and current affairs.  
He is the author of "The Korean Language Reform of 1446", "The Dutch 
Come to Korea", the book-length monograph "Cartography in Korea", 
published in the multi-volume work "History of Cartography", edited 
by David Woodward, and many articles in journals and conference 
volumes.

Thank you and regards,
Sang Joo Kim
Sr Fellow & Executive Vice President
ICAS
http://www.dvol.com/~users/icas
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